Multiple choice cloze Polar Bear alert
Recently, many environmental organisations have been stressing the threats that polar bears face, and have been making effort to raise people's 1)__ of this problem. Fortunately, they have been successful in making governments realise that the 2)__of a set of regulations to protect polar bears is necessary. As a result, in an effort to 3)_the hunting of these bears, in 1973, Canada, Norway Denmark, the USA and the Soviet Union signed the Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears. Large polar bear population can be found in areas 4)__in all five countries. However, polar bears are still in danger because of the 5)__of global warming at the North Pole. The melting of the ice there 6) __ a serious threat to polar bears. This is because they can survive only in areas where the oceans 7) __, allowing them to hunt seals living on or under the polar ice cap. Many scientists fear that if governments don't start protecting polar bears, they will 8)___off the face of the earth in the near future.